28/04/2009

26 | Conclusions and new beginnings

And here we are. In less than a hour, my sister and I are going to the airport and wait for our plane to take us back to Paris, after exactly eight months in Montreal. As I plan to tell you all about this stay in the next Barely Fake Diaries, I'm writing this last Québecois Talking Non-Sense (at least before in four months) to tell you how this Freshman year was great for my comics "career". Because, if this year was one of the less productive ones (come on, I just got in college, I have other things on my mind than drawing !!), it was full of great opportunities. First, I was published AND payed for the very first time with So Lucky Are Boys. Thanks to this experience, I decided to create this blog (after visiting Zviane's who also published in Quartier Libre) and that helped me communicate with other amateurs (or not) comics-artists, what I had never ever done before. Then, after taking part (for the first time) in a class dedicated to comics, one of mine was exhibited among gorgeous photographs taken by very talented students. Barely two hours ago, I was given the prize I received for the second comics-contest I ever participated and met other student comics artists.

Eventually, I finally published the first pages of the most important comics in my amateur career, my highschool project Wood (on Webcomics.fr), signing the beginning of what I hope to be a great adventure. To put it in a nutshell, this Freshman year was the most exciting period for my comics' aspirations. Let's hope, the next year (and every others) will be even better.